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Kiwifruit (often shortened to kiwi outside New Zealand and Australia) or Chinese gooseberry is the edible berry of several species of woody vines in the genus Actinidia. [1] [2] The most common cultivar group of kiwifruit ( Actinidia deliciosa 'Hayward') [3] is oval, about the size of a large hen's egg : 5–8 centimetres (2–3 inches) in ...
People who tasted the fruit thought it had a gooseberry flavour, so began to call it the Chinese gooseberry, but being from the genus Actinidia, it is not related to the gooseberry family, Grossulariaceae. The familiar cultivar Actinidia deliciosa 'Hayward' was developed by Hayward Wright in Avondale, New Zealand, around 1924. This is the most ...
Gooseberry ( / ˈɡuːsbɛri / GOOSS-berr-ee or / ˈɡuːzbɛri / GOOZ-berr-ee (American and northern British) or / ˈɡʊzbəri / GUUZ-bər-ee (southern British)) [1] is a common name for many species of Ribes (which also includes currants ), as well as a large number of plants of similar appearance. The berries of those in the genus Ribes ...
Physalis peruviana is a species of plant in the nightshade family ( Solanaceae) native to Chile and Peru. [2] Within that region, it is called aguaymanto, uvilla or uchuva, in addition to numerous indigenous and regional names. In English, its common names include Cape gooseberry, goldenberry and Peruvian groundcherry.
Actinidia chinensis (Planch.), [1] known commercially as the golden kiwifruit, is a fruiting vine, native to China. It is one of some 40 related species of the genus Actinidia, and closely related to Actinidia deliciosa, [2] which is the source of the most common commercial kiwifruit. [2] [3] Fruit colour may vary from green to lime green or ...
Actinidia. Species: A. arguta. Binomial name. Actinidia arguta. ( Siebold & Zucc.) Planch. ex Miq. Actinidia arguta, the hardy kiwi, is a perennial vine native to Japan, Korea, Northern China, and the Russian Far East. It produces a small kiwifruit without the hair-like fiber covering the outside, unlike most other species of the genus.
Kiwifruit or kiwi is a major horticultural export earner for New Zealand. New Zealand developed the first commercially viable kiwifruit and developed export markets, creating the demand for the fruit that exists today. Today New Zealand is the third largest kiwifruit producing country, next to China and Italy, [1] and holds approximately 30% of ...
Phyllanthus mimosifolius Salisb. Phyllanthus emblica, also known as emblic, [2] [5] emblic myrobalan, [2] myrobalan, [5] Indian gooseberry, [2] [5] Malacca tree, [5] or amla, [5] from the Sanskrit आमलकी ( āmalakī ), is a deciduous tree of the family Phyllanthaceae. Its native range is tropical and southern Asia. [4]